Exploring the Interrelationships of Art and Geology through a Course Module on European Ice Age Cave Art
Denise A. Battles, Jane Rhoades Hudak March 2005 Journal of Geoscience Education v53 n2p 176
This article from the Journal of Geoscience Education provides an overview of key concepts and resources that interested geoscience and/or art faculty can use to adapt or develop a module or activity incorporating European ice age cave art. This is a topic that is well suited for art-and-science and art-and-geology courses, offering subject matter that illustrates the interdisciplinary connections between art and the earth sciences. Among these are the origins of caves, the nature of ice ages, the authentification and dating of cave paintings, the scientific method and the nature of scientific hypotheses, the elements and principles of art and their presence (or absence) in cave art, and human evolution and the origins of creativity.
